{"product_id":"2940170836499","title":"A Colony in a Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmmy Award-winning news anchor and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation. America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a post-racial world, but nearly every empirical measure - wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation - reveals that racial inequality hasn't improved since 1968. With the clarity and originality that distinguished his prescient bestseller, \u003ci\u003eTwilight of the Elites\u003c\/i\u003e (\"a stunning polemic,\" said Ta-Nehisi Coates), award-winning journalist Chris Hayes offers a powerful new framework in which to understand our current crisis. Hayes contends our country has fractured in two: the Colony and the Nation. In the Nation, we venerate the law. In the Colony, we obsess over order; fear trumps civil rights; and aggressive policing resembles occupation. How and why did Americans build a system where conditions in Ferguson and West Baltimore mirror those that sparked the American Revolution? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending wide-ranging historical research with political, social, and economic analysis, \u003ci\u003eA Colony in a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e explains how a Nation founded on justice constructed the Colony - and how it threatens our democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47105192067312,"sku":"2940170836499","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170836499_p0.jpg?v=1763719081","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170836499","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}